Dr. Joseph Schwartz, chairman of the European executive council of the Joint Distribution Committee, left London by air today for the Union of South Africa, where he will discuss plans with leaders of the South African Jewish War Appeal for the relief and rehabilitation of Europe’s Jewish survivors.
According to an announcement in New York today by Edward M.M. Warburg, JDC chairman, Dr. Schwartz will spend two weeks in South Africa before returning to the continent to make an inspection survey of the conditions of Jewish survivors in Poland. Mr. Warburg disclosed that the South African Jewish community is now cooperating, to the extent of $1,600,000 for the year in the J.D.C. relief and rehabilitation programs for Jewish survivors in European areas.
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